The help families need for victims of nursing home neglect and abuse

After the lifetime of love and care you received from your parents, grandparents and other close relatives, making the decision to entrust their care to a nursing home is extremely difficult. However, when they need special medical attention or 24-hour supervision to remain healthy and safe, a qualified facility may be the only alternative. Even when you make a decision based on thorough research, residential facilities can suffer reduced staffing concerns, hire the wrong employees or even lose control over a dangerous resident. If your loved one is injured as the result of these or other concerns, the dedicated nursing home neglect attorneys at Fazio DiSalvo & Abers, P.A. can help you take the legal action needed to protect them from further harm and compensate them for their injuries.

Nursing home neglect can lead to accidents and illness

Even facilities with the best intentions can neglect residents due to short staffing or financial concerns. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration provides guides to help you avoid choosing nursing homes that pose risks to residents, but it is as important to do your own homework to help ensure the safety of your loved ones. You also need to remain watchful for signs of neglect, such as the following:

Nursing home accidents: Wet floors, unsecured electrical cords, or other items left in pathways can lead to slip and fall accidents, which can cause permanent or even deadly injuries to seniors.

Daily care: Unclean clothing or a lack of regular bathing are signs that loved ones are not receiving the basic daily care they need to remain healthy. If your loved one is bedridden, bedsores indicate nursing home staff is not attending to their needs.

Nutrition: It is not unusual for seniors to lose some weight over time, but any sudden and severe unexplained weight loss can be a sign of neglect. Even with changed eating behaviors, experienced nursing home staff needs to avoid patient malnutrition and dehydration with meal supplements.

When you call a personal injury lawyer at Fazio DiSalvo & Abers, P.A., you receive immediate advice and support. We can help you work with nursing home administrators when minor corrections can alleviate your concerns, but our board-certified trial lawyer can help you take full legal action when needed.

No resident should ever suffer from nursing home abuse

Many residential facilities have staff members dedicated to ensuring the seniors in their care have the best lives possible, but even the best nursing homes can hire one or more employees who fail to protect residents from abuse — or even cause it, such as in the following situations:

Willful neglect: Nursing home staff members can cause serious illness or injury when they intentionally choose to ignore declining physical conditions.

Assault: Impatience with the behavior of residents can lead to workers who inappropriately restrain or even strike their charges. Workers who do not notice injuries caused by other residents or fail to investigate signs of violence can also share culpability for the abuse.

Sexual abuse: Residents can be highly vulnerable to sexual abuse perpetrated by other residents or by staff members who did not undergo a thorough background check prior to being hired.

Even when acts like these are perpetrated by individuals other than nursing home employees, a facility that fails to quickly identify and act to prevent further abuse can be liable under medical malpractice law.

Schedule a free consultation to learn how we can help protect the safety of your elderly loved ones

If you have any concerns about the care provided in a nursing home, a free initial consultation with the lawyers of Fazio DiSalvo & Abers, P.A. can provide the advice you need to protect them. We take calls 24/7, offer flexible hours for a free consultation, and we can meet with you in our convenient downtown office, at home or in the hospital. We take cases on a contingency-fee basis, so you pay no attorney fees until we obtain an award or settlement for your case. Contact us online, or call us at 954.416.0124 today.

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While many of our significant cases are settled confidentially, here are a few of our verdicts:

$2,200,000 jury verdict for the wrongful death of a 9 year old boy in a highway traffic crash.

$1,000,000 jury verdict for a severe knee fracture after an intersection collision.

$700,000 settlement for the wrongful death of an elderly patient who failed to receive prescribed Lovenox injections after hip replacement surgery to prevent blood clots and then developed a blood clot and died.

$4,250,000 for the wrongful death of a 17 year old boy when bacterial meningitis was not timely diagnosed by the nursing staff or physicians in a post-op rehab. facility.

$500,000 for loss of sight in one eye for failure to diagnose and treat glaucoma in the presence of steadily increasing intra ocular pressure.

$650,000 settlement for the loss of sight in one eye caused by perforation of the sinus during surgery to remove nasal polyps.

$3,500,000 for the death of a 65 year old church janitor for failure of the hospital staff and doctors to recognize post-op internal bleeding.

$600,000 for a pelvic fracture sustained by a truck driver when a warehouse facility failed to properly unload a semi truck trailer.

$625,000 for a fractured leg in a 20 year old hit by a car while riding his motorcycle.

$2,000,000 jury verdict for the wrongful death of a 25 year old woman working directing traffic at a construction site when she was hit by a truck backing up.

Fazio DiSalvo & Abers, P.A. is located in Fort Lauderdale, FL and serves clients in and around Fort Lauderdale, Dania, Hollywood, Hallandale, Pompano Beach, North Miami Beach and Broward County.

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